We all like photographing candid. Those brilliant shots that capture how a person is really feeling, or what they are really thinking without the gloss of smiles and poses. There’s no better place for candids than the underground/subway/metro. Thousands of people all crammed into a small space refusing to make eye contact with »
I’m lucky enough to be in a position where I get to visit Paris every few months. It’s one of the only cities in the world I never get bored of; there’s always so much to see and do. This time, I decided to go ‘film only’, taking my holga, a lubitel TLR and a »
It’s been a bit quiet since the new year. It’s dark here in Scotland, real dark. I’ve not been doing to much photography lately, been busy at work with 8 websites to make before March, and trying to get my main site Goat Karma put into tumblr but that’s all forgotten now »
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Flickr Friday
This is a new series that we are starting, and hope that it will continue weekly.
Each week, we will search the Holga Flickr group for photos added during that week and will post a few of our favorites, based on a theme.
Our first theme for the week of February 10 – 17, 2010 is The [...]
Holga Wide and Tele Lens test shots
Here are a few test shots I took in my back yard a couple of weeks ago using the new Holga Wide and Tele lenses. For comparison, I stood in the same spot and took them all from the same angle (as best I could!).
I will keep trying out the lenses in some more different [...]
Review: Holga 120 WPC
I was originally going to start this review of the 120 WPC off quite technically – what the WPC stood for, what features it had, what the f-stop was. That kind of thing. Then I realised I’d been sucked into what I actually try to avoid in photography: geekspeak. So while some of the specifics [...]
